I might be wrong but is it possible the confusion here might be like me pooky is wondering why there should be a "Virtualbox" directory in his home folder AFTER it's been completely un-installed (--purge)

Graeme

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I might be wrong but is it possible the confusion here might be like me pooky is wondering why there should be a "Virtualbox" directory in his home folder AFTER it's been completely un-installed (--purge)

Graeme

That's <partly> why I am asking the question

Sorry Mark, I have just re-read the line I put in BOLD

'Then if you wish delete the "Virtualbox" directory from your Home directory.'

and just before I read that, that's when I first saw your post;

'You can't seriously be telling me that after all this time you don't know what a "directory" is, or where your "Home" directory is '

You know how your mind sometimes 'fills in the blanks', well, I saw 'Then if you wish to delete the "Virtualbox"....', I was expecting some more instructions.

You should have put;'Then if you wish, delete the "Virtualbox" directory from your Home directory.'^

Sorry for all the confusion, I just wanted to be sure of all the steps before I did anything to remove the Virtualbox from my PC.

The Virtualbox directory in your Home directory is where any created VM's will have been saved (by default) .. these VM's won't be removed, even by a "purge" of vitualbox .. purge will just uninstall virtualbox and its configuration files, NOT any VM's you created .. in the same way you wouldn't expect a purge of LibreOffice to delete any documents you created with it

@ Pooky

OK I'm no English professor, but ..

Seriously ? .. a comma makes that sentence read differently ?

I can only see the need for a comma if it was possible to read it as wish-delete, but I figured you'd know you couldn't delete it by wishing